umtrr-author wrote:Won't happen. Collectively as a population we seem to be handed shorter and shorter names for things: KFC for example, not Kentucky Fried Chicken. The History Channel's logo is just "H". Etc.
This is not new to the railroad industry, of course. Consider:
- The Pennsylvania Railroad, often shorted to Pennsy.
- The New York, Chicago, & St. Louis was shortened to the Nickel Plate.
- The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis was shortened to the Big Four.
- The Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads became C&O and B&O, respectively.
- My personal favorite, the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company, which no one ever says except as an example of a ludicrously ambitious title.
Those weren't official names, but they might as well have been. CSX just beat everyone to the punch.
The picture to the right is a photo of Silverliner I 246 located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA.